This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Process-theoretic characterisation of the Hermitian adjoint. (arXiv:1606.05086v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-6-17 12:26pm GMT Authors: John Selby, Bob Coecke We show that the physical principle “the adjoint associates to each state a `test’ for… Read more →
Furkan Semih Dündar and Baris Tamer Tonguc We study kinematics of atoms and molecules in quantum shape dynamics. We analyzed a model universe where there is only electrical force between protons and electrons. A similar model where there is only gravitational attraction between masses was investigated by Barbour, Koslowski and Mercati before. Our results is an expansion of the ideas there. We found… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Pilot-wave quantum theory in discrete space and time and the principle of least action. (arXiv:1606.02883v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-6-11 3:12am GMT Authors: Janusz Gluza, Jerzy Kosek The idea of obtaining a pilot-wave quantum… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Theoretical fertility McMullin-style Latest Results for European Journal for Philosophy of Science on 2016-6-03 12:00am GMT Abstract A theory’s fertility is one of the standard theoretical virtues. But how is it to be construed?… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Bell’s Universe: A Personal Recollection. (arXiv:1605.08081v1 [physics.hist-ph]) physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-28 7:32am GMT Authors: Reinhold A. Bertlmann My collaboration and friendship with John Bell is recollected. I will explain his outstanding contributions in… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Running vacuum in the Universe and the time variation of the fundamental constants of Nature. (arXiv:1605.06104v1 [hep-ph]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-21 8:37am GMT Authors: Harald Fritzsch, Rafael C. Nunes, Joan Sola We compute the time… Read more →
Art Hobson (University of Arkansas) The entangled “Schrodinger’s cat state” of a quantum and its measurement apparatus is not a paradoxical superposition of states but is instead a non-paradoxical superposition of nonlocal coherent correlations between states: An un-decayed nucleus is correlated with a live cat, and a decayed nucleus is correlated with a dead cat. This elucidation of entanglement is demonstrated by quantum-theoretical analysis and… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Spacetime-free Approach to Quantum Theory and Effective Spacetime Structure. (arXiv:1605.03942v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-14 9:34am GMT Authors: Matti Raasakka Motivated by hints of the effective emergent nature of spacetime structure, we develop… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Physical states in Quantum Einstein-Cartan Gravity. (arXiv:1605.01544v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-06 12:52am GMT Authors: Francesco Cianfrani The definition of physical states is the main technical issue of canonical approaches towards Quantum Gravity…. Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. The Reality of Casimir Friction. (arXiv:1508.00626v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-4-29 12:38am GMT Authors: K. A. Milton, J. S. Høye, I. Brevik For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction,… Read more →
Christopher A. Fuchs To appear in “Information & Interaction: Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge”, edited by Ian T. Durham and Dean Rickles In the Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, ” ‘I’ is not the name of a person, nor ‘here’ of a place, …. But they are connected with names. … [And] it is characteristic of physics not… Read more →
